“Got one of those brochures from the Resettlement Administration. They want us to leave. They’ll even give you money if you do. I’ve been saving up some of my own as best I could.
The Resettlement Administration was an agency created by Roosevelt's New Deal program. Its goal was to relocate families from struggling locations to communities planned by the federal government. Most of the migrant camps in California ( made famous by John Steinbeck's classic novel 'The Grapes of Wrath) were created and run by the RA.
